All Industry News articles – Page 416
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Iridium reports good businesses
Iridium Satellite LLC, the global supplier of mobile satellite communication services, said that it has approximately 127,000 subscribers as of June 30, 2005. This is a 20 per cent increase over its total number of subscribers at mid-year 2004.
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More fish! Morocco-EU breakthrough
Morocco has finally done a deal with the EU to re-open the rich Moroccan fisheries to a starved EU capture and processing industry. It is five years since Morocco refused in November 1999 to renew its agreement with Brussels, hitting supplies for EU catching and processing industries and putting heavy ...
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Customer awards best grade to Scanvaegt
The Charvoz family has run Cannes Aquaculture on the French Mediterranean coast for generations and they say they have built up a good reputation for their professional approach to every aspect of the aquaculture business. In 1997, Denis Charvoz, manager and co-owner says he investigated the international market for graders ...
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Norway opens blue whiting fishery in anger
Norway''s fisheries and coastal affairs minister Svein Ludvigsen has used tough language to attack the EU and other states over their failure to agree on restrictions on blue whiting catches.
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UN says 30% at limit or beyond
Seven of the world''s top 10 marine fish species - approximately 30 per cent of all capture fisheries output - are fully exploited or overexploited, according to a UN State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA) report.
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Danfish Spotlight 13 - 15 October
DanFish International will be held from 13-15 October in Aalborg in Denmark and up to 15,000 visitors from 48 countries are expected. World Fishing talked to sales manager Evan Dyren to find out what are the main attractions at this year''s exhibition.
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Pirates 115 vessels caught in Oz waters
HMAS Geraldton has arrested the latest of 115 vessels caught fishing illegally this year, according to the Australian fisheries minister senator Ian Macdonald.
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North Coast Fisheries and its president sentenced for false fish landing record
North Coast is a commercial fish receiver and dealer in Santa Rosa that purchased federally-regulated groundfish from fishermen. State and federal law requires that fish receivers, such as North Coast, fill out and submit fish landing receipts in order to report all landings of groundfish received and ultimately ...
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Pelagic giant in the Netherlands
Future changes in the global operation of the two large Dutch fishing firms Jaczon of Scheveningen en Vrolijk of IJmuiden might not be excluded in the longer term, writes Pieter Tesch, but in the immediate future the two firms would continue to operate as two separate companies as they are ...
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Sæplast gets reorganised
ICELANDIC Sæplast reports that is refurbishing its Norwegian factory which makes fenders and buoys, investing in new machinery and equipment, and is also the object of a reorganisation of a number of subsidiaries by its parent company. Sæplast said the company''s rotomoulding production was transferred to a new, independent company, ...
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Fishermen get grants
The Dutch government has to grant Euro85m in compensation to cockle dredgers after the government decided to ban this year cockle dredging in the Waddenzee, an inshore stretch of the North Sea north of the province of Friesland, according to an independent commission, writes Pieter Tesch.
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Domstein goes wild
Norway''s Domstein ASA, have sold off their holdings in salmon farming (Fjord Seafood) and will focus only on wild fish, industrial production and sales and distribution through Domstein Enghav.
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Ireland - demand for fishy fish money
Ireland will have to pay back €590,000 to the Commission in Brussels for "lack of proper control over the withdrawal of fish".
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Optimar celebrates triplets with Visir
OPTIMAR Ice has installed an ice machine on the Sighvatur GK, making it the third for Grindavik-based Visir''s vessels. The latest, a BP-120, has a capacity of 1,000 litres of 40% thick ice per hour and a 2,100 -litre storage tank.
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Tourists catching too many fish
The volume of the fish caught by tourists and sport fishermen in Norway, writes Hans Morten Sundness, may now be as much as 60,000 tonnes (t) a year and this may match the commercial cod fish catch by Norwegian fishermen in the traditional Lofoten season, according to professor Abraham ...
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All sea life in acid oceans' threat?
Squid, fish, crustaceans, plankton, larvae, marine mammals and the whole marine food chain are under threat from CO2 as the gas turns the oceans acidic, warns the world''s oldest scientific body, the Royal Society in London, reports Peter O''Neill.
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Oysters fishing back to front
The Jacoba Prins has turned oyster laying and fishing back to front. Dutch builder Maaskant Bruinisse B.V., Bruinisse, Netherlands and owner Prins Oesterkweek b.v., Yerseke, Netherlands decided on a different approach for this dedicated vessel. The wheelhouse is offset to the starboard side and gives a good overview of the ...
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Norway reopens the fishery for blue whiting
The Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and Coastal affairs Svein Ludvigsen has decided to reopen the Norwegian fishery for blue whiting in Norwegian and international waters as of July 18. The Norwegian total allowable catch (TAC) in 2005 is set at 890.000 tonnes.
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RED SNAPPER COMMERCIAL FISHERY OPENS IN GULF OF MEXICO FEDERAL WATERS
NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announces the commercial fishery for red snapper in Gulf of Mexico federal waters will open at noon, local time, on August 1, 2005, and will close at noon, local time, on August 10, 2005.
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Vietnam tries to push the boat further out
Vietnam’s fishing and aquaculture industries have witnessed rapid growth during the past decade as Vietnam has developed into one of the world’s largest exporters of fishery products. David Hayes reports.
